Knight: what a woman patiently awaits before an alimony check
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Knight: what a woman patiently awaits before an alimony check
Oaf
trend: a popular tendency or preference that, for some reason, draws scorn from the pretentiousQuote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Paragon:
Oaf: An inconsiderate bungler who ignores the rules in a feeble attempt to make some sort of point, known only to him/herself.
Irony:
Irony: what Clopin needs to do to that shirty.
Mr. Potato Head
Mr. Potato Head: A children’s toy that originally required a real potato to make it work.
Work:
Work: The opposite of play
Metaphysical
Work: For the 18th and 19th century Irish, a process of obtaining potatoes, which were in turn required to make them work.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Translucent
Metaphysical: Totally off the charts, so that it may not even exist
Translucent: Partially see-through, a trend in women's shirts
Goner:
Goner: one still slightly better than gonest.
Abstain
Abstain: a stain you get on your t-shirt sleeve when working out.
exhume:
Exhume: 18th-century philosopher David, being now dead.
Cremate
Cremate: the post-global warming word for 'climate'
inclination:
inclination: that part of us that proves we don't have free will or full say in our thoughts or decisions
Apollonian:
Apollonian: having the properties of or preferring classic beauty, such as the 1957 Chevy I drool over
Spartan:
Spartan: The Greek economy.
Economy
Economy: From the Greek word οικονομία, the spending of others' money.
money:
money: The filthy lucre we work ourselves to death to earn, scrimp and save every nickel, and if we are fortunate there will be enough to bury us when we drop dead of exhaustion.
Retirement:
Retirement: Being put to pasture so that someone younger can have your job.
revenge
Revenge: attempting to feel better about one's personal pain by hurting others
blancmange
That sums it up for me as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
blancmange: A shapely dessert good enough to eat.
Shapely
Shapely: Scarlett Johannsen
Vicissitude
Vicissitude: Regular change or succession of one state or thing to another, such as a sober man to a drunkard
Drunk in Public:
Drunk in Public: Too many of my pledge nights my Freshman year
Intoxication
intoxication: the feeling one might get when insufferable forum users get banned.
pedant
Pedant: A person disposed to provide meticulous detail to what is irrelevant.
Detail
Detail: the devil's Trojan horse
Seance
One of the primary elements separating the modes of those in the sciences and those in the Humanities.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Sardonic
Seance: An attempt to speak with the dead, often preformed with great pomp and circumstance by professional conmen and conwomen
Sardonic: Bitingly sarcastic, along the lines of Mark Twain's writings
Critic:
Critic (good one)--A person whose confidence in their perception of an "object," their particular care for and/or concern with that object, and their ability to articulate that care and/or concern for it leads them to evaluate it in spoken words, written words, or visceral reaction.
Visceral:
Visceral: relating to the internal organs, which for some reason, are believed to be the seat of deep instinctive feelings.
Stationary bike
Seance: Say what?
Stationary bike: An oxymoronic bicycle.
Explanation:
Explanation: a denial making a brief layover on its journey to apology
Neurotic
Neurotic: Someone who blames neurons for his behavior. One possible synonym would be “mental”, but those in viewing range would have other, more fitting, descriptions.
Mental:
Mental: an impolite thing to call a psycho
Inappropriate
Inappropriate: All the juicy words we'd love to use on the Forum when the discussions get really heated up.
Discussion
Discussion: what progressive parents have with a child who has just shot his teachers
Diplomacy
Discussion: The state of existence in which we, as social beings, have always been and always will be. "Discourse" is its fraternal twin.Quote:
Originally Posted by mona amon
Ideology:
Diplomacy: An attempt to keep the steam kettle from exploding.
Ideology: A rational facade for irrational dispositions.
Rules:
Rules: Things telling you to do or not do something
Seduction:
Seduction: A man's usual excuse when he gets caught flirting with or ogling women
Fabrication: